Authors

Pete Moore

Pete W. Moore is the Marcus A. Hanna Associate Professor of Politics at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Ohio. He has held previous positions at Concordia University in Montreal, Dartmouth College in New
Hampshire, and the University of Miami in Coral Gables. His research focuses on issues of political economy, state-society relations, and sub-state conflict in the Gulf and the Levant. He has served on the editorial committee of the Middle East Report and currently co-directs the Northeast Ohio Consortium for Middle East Studies (NOCMES), a collaborative initiative of several universities and faculty.

Currently, he is completing a manuscript on Jordan`s war economies.

ARTICLES BY Pete Moore

  • Jordan’s Long War Economy

    Jordan’s Long War Economy

    At dawn on 17 September 1970 two divisions of the Jordanian Armed Forces (JAF), plus newly formed internal security units from the Government Intelligence Directorate (GID), attacked the capital Amman. Over the previous year, sporadic violence flared between JAF units and the Palestinian fid..

  • Why Not Jordan?

    Why Not Jordan?

    The 13 November withdrawal of fuel and electricity subsidies has sparked vigorous demonstrations in Jordan, prompting renewed speculation about whether the wav..

  • Sovereign Wealth and Ruler Loot

    Sovereign Wealth and Ruler Loot

    The mobility of capital, depending on one’s position, is a virtue or a vice. Since the onset of the Arab Spring, a lot of money has been moving in, out, and around the Middle East. In the classic liberal world, the mobility of money is governed by the market. In the real world however, politics ..